| | Posted by : Himitsu 
Posted on : 2007-11-16  
A very good anime series. The producers did a splended job on all the elements needed to create this series. Name anything: music, colour, sound effects, tone, execution, shadows, voice overs... everything was executed in a harminous way. Changing anything would taint this title.
From my experience of horror anime, I've had the impression that most horror genred anime are keen on giving you a "scare" by throwing in copious amounts of blood (Elfen Lied), or creeping you out through psychopathic facial expressions (Higurashi). Ghost Hunt, however, was able to SCARE ME. Not the creepy-scary, or gory-scary; or even the startle-scary. It was the type of scary that will give you nightmares, doublecheck under your bed, and close your closet doors. There were plenty of cases where I couldn't watch this with my light off, even the introductory title would make me weary of going to bed alone...
Disclaimer:
Although I have admitted that Ghost Hunt actually scared me, there's no guarantee that you'll experience the same thing. Your thrill-seeking doesn't stop here for I am... chickensh-t. I get scared VERY easily (notice the emphasis on 'very').
Then again, I've talked to some friends who have watched Ghost Hunt, and they have admitted that it was pretty scary.
Ghost Hunt left me aching for more, each case was a mystery, and was solved in a clever way - don't you love detective stories? Loved the main characters: Naru, Lin, Mai, I even loved to see Osamu (a character that comes in later in the series). Actually, Osamu was able to put much comic relief, I love his personality! Osamu is the type of guy that "yanks your chain", but does it so swiftly, that it'll leave the victim confused, but the audience laughing. I hope to see more of his character sometime soon.
The only real complaint I have is that they had a lot of unecessary characters, they could have sufficed with just four. The OP and ED were boring, but that's not a real complaint.
Ghost Hunt was addictive, and there were plenty of quality equipment holding it together. The music really creeps you out, they use screeching violin sounds. The voice work was good and... oh, Lin was an attractive character. Great anime to dive into. | |
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